UPDATE, 11:14: Kloppenburg had gone up, but now they're back even at 50%.

UPDATE, 11:35: Concentrating on the AP numbers, looking at which counties still need to report, I'm irritated by the way Waukesha (strong for Prosser) and Dane (strong for Kloppenburg) seem to be holding out, like it's a game of chicken. Right now the candidates are 50-50%, with Prosser up 6,000+. It's been seesawing back and forth, with Kloppenburg up some of the time. To my eye, it looks as though there are more votes left to report in the places that are pro-Prosser, so I think in the end Prosser will squeak by.

UPDATE, 11:43: Dane (Madison's county) is nearly all in. I don't see how Kloppenburg can net more than about 3,000 with what's left of Dane. Waukesha is now shown as completely in, but the numbers didn't change, so I think something may have been misreported. I took the trouble to do a calculation and was going to predict that Prosser would net 40,000 more votes in Waukesha. What happened?

UPDATE, 11:55: There will be a recount, I assume. All those absentee ballots. The possibility of some fraud. It's nearly midnight here. Maybe we won't know the answer for days.

What is the margin of fraud in this case? Do you think that they'd actually contest this election if it was close -- OK, if I were in either camp I would, just because too much money has been thrown at it not to.

ALH, I fear you're right. Exactly what Franken did. In Robert Caro's biography of LBJ, he notes LBJ's rookie mistake in his first congressional election was to not tell "his" precincts to report late. When they reported, his oppnonent was able to tell "his" precincts how many votes were needed for victory. And so it goes...

Well, of course. It's going to be a win for our new sense of "democracy" in either case. However, an actual win by this bizarrely self-righteous crowd—you know, like at the ballot box—would be close to insufferable.

I am not saying that there WILL be fraud- but given that some of the city/county government buildings in Madison have PRO UNION signs in the windows for the last month makes some of us hillbillies outside of Madison a bit nervous that fraud COULD occur if it is close.

A year ago I'd have said that the chances for significant fraud in an election in Wisconsin were pretty low. But that was before the events of the last two months. Now, I'd say that the chances that the election results give the same outcome as the votes themselves is not great.

There's a judge in Dane County who would be happy to hold up the election if that's necessary.

No fraud? Well, it's possible there will be no fraud discovered. But that's a long way from there being no fraud. Who is counting the votes? Is it any more likely that they will be honest than the teachers who used fake doctors' excuses? The idea that there will be fraud is a far cry from preposterous, with all due respect to the Professor.

WV: Under. They just found 3 boxes of Klopp votes under a stack of fake doctors' excuses.

Don't know that I'm necessarily a reliable source, but my family has a long history in Wisconsin and had been somewhat politically active (by that I mean off-and-on). I don't recall that voter fraud was ever a real issue or concern.

Milwaukee has discovered some more voter fraud with 10 more voter registration workers are being investigated by Wisconsin authorities. Fittingly, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered the story in its paper on August 29. Unfittingly, the Journal Sentinel forgot one, tiny aspect of the story... that the voter fraud was perpetrated by Democrats. In fact, one of the organizations, ACORN, is intimately linked with Barack Obama.

Milwaukee’s top election official said Thursday she plans to seek criminal investigations of 10 more voter registration workers, including two accused of offering gifts to sign up voters.So, what we have here is an Old Media story about voter fraud where the salient fact that the fraud is being committed by Democrats and Democrat organizations is somehow absent from the story. What a surprise, eh?

Voter bribery, voter fraud, workers misrepresenting themselves with false driver's license numbers, fake Social Security numbers, there's lots of details in the story. Yet, the word Democrat never appears once in the story.

So, who was responsible for all this fraudulent registration?

All the workers were paid by two organizations running voter registration drives, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the Community Voters Project. Overall, 37 of the suspect workers were on the ACORN payroll, 11 were paid by the voters project and it’s not clear who employed the other one.For those of you unaware, ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is a far left group that is intimately linked with Barack Obama since his early days in the corrupt Chicago, Daley Democrat political machine. ACORN has given Obama much financial support over the last two decades. ACORN is also big on furthering the unAmerican thuggery of unions all across the nation. And that means they are strictly a Democrat organization... not that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wants anyone to know that.

So, what are the charges here?

Among the latest group, two ACORN workers are accused of offering pre-paid gasoline cards or restaurant gift cards to people in exchange for signing up to vote.Edman said she wants Landgraf to look into whether the workers violated a state law that forbids offering cash or gifts to sway voters.Eight voter project workers are suspected of making up information on voter applications, Edman said.Among the workers previously referred to Landgraf, two are accused of submitting cards for dead voters.Others appear to have submitted cards for people who said they never filled out an application or who were already registered, signed cards themselves, or falsified driver’s license numbers.That's quite a laundry list. And, realize, this sort of Democrat fraud is happening all across the country in every major city. And it's all perpetrated by Democrats. Someone should pass this info on to the Journal Sentinel.

LaFollette has zero authority - everything is run by the local election officials, coordinated and (often) counted by count election officials. There are so many checks in place that it would be just about impossible to pull off any systematic fraud.

The previous reports of alleged fraud were almost entirely due to poor record keeping, people trying to vote in the wrong precinct, etc. Nothing like manufactured votes or plain old ballot stuffing. Just doesn't happen here.

Investigators said Tuesday they found clear evidence of fraud in the Nov. 2 election in Milwaukee, including more than 200 cases of felons voting illegally and more than 100 people who voted twice, used fake names or false addresses or voted in the name of a dead person.

Madawaskan, its pointless arguing. I've seen people brought in from Illinois, write down a name, then go to the polling place and claim they are that person. The trick is to know who hasn't voted and use that vote late in the day.

"Now Dane County is half reported, and Waukesha is only 25% reported. Waukesha is going to bring it home."

Wow.

That's good news.

I don't think it's a good idea to accuse election fraud without a specific reason. I realize democrats have been convicted of election fraud an awful lot, and even when they haven't, several close elections have been settled in suspicious ways, but it's extremely corrosive to our republic to assume election fraud occurred. I think it's a good idea to wait until you actually have a very good reason to think it happened before that kind of thing is assumed.

N, with more than half of Milwaukee county's votes counted, Klopp only has 20k more votes than Prosser. There's also fewer than 100k more votes to report in Dane. Even if the rates in both stay the same, Klopp picks up +70k and what's left to count in Waukesha crushes that. Everyone can head to bed.

Hopefully the lesson of this election is that volatile, Rules of Radicals style, in your face electioneering is a two way street. Sure, the folks of Madison were pumped up, but the way they got there pumped up the rest of the state.

Had Kloppenburg condemned that ad with the molestation issue, I wonder what could have been. But so many people just don't think that kind of person would be a reliable judge. All those 'she's going to stop Walker' promises were not a good argument, even if they are all she had going for her.

I still don't know if Prosser will win, but I think the left in WI is ineffective.

More of MKE just reported too, and Klopp's % actually is down to 56% in the urban liberal stronghold. Current vote totals extrapolate to a total net of 24k votes for Klopp in MKE county. That's got to be disappointing for the Dems.